Excerpt from The Open Court, Vol. 24: A Monthly Magazine, Devoted to the Science of Religion, the Religion of Science, and the Extension of the Religious Parliament Idea; March, 1910 AS one who accepts the facts of telepathy and apparitions, both of the living and the dead, I should heartily endorse this clever explanation if criticism had not taught me that it is impossible to put Luke and John on the same historic footing as Mark. Mark has been Shown by scientific analysis to be a more trustworthy record than any other of the four. Where the others exaggerate, Mark Simplifies. In my unpublished Documentary Introduction to the Gospels, I give abundant proof of this. To take. Only one ex ample: Mark relates that James and. John asked the Lord that they might sit at his right and left hands in his glory; Matthew says it was their mother who made the request. This was because, when the canonical First Gospel was compiled, the Apostles were saintly characters, incapable of ambition. Of course this one case would not prove such a thesis but a dozen such cases do prove it by cumu lative evidence. Similar traces of later exaggeration abound in Duke, and above all in John. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.